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April 09, 2007

The Easter Gathering @ MIDTOWN

So it's 12:16am and I am wide awake and feel as though I could go run a marathon...except exercise is pretty much a foreign concept to me....but you get the general ideal of how I am feeling. Tonight, we had The Easter Gathering at Midtown, the church a group of us started just over a year ago here in downtown Columbia, SC.

So why can't I go to sleep at this point...is it because Wal-Mart now has Peeps on sale for half off or is it because I realized that the over grown bunny they call the Easter Bunny really doesn't exist....though all of those are great reasons to loose sleep...NO...much more and significant reasons than that.

God is at work in Columbia. Tonight I was reminded on why we moved here to start this thing called Midtown. Tonight I saw repentance, I saw celebration, and I saw the scales come off the eyes of a number of people. If the scales didn't come off during the band playing "My Hero" by Foo Fighters with 2 extra tom drums and an extra bass drum, which was being hit with a mallet they came off at the end when the high priest sat down.

In Hebrews 10 it explains how when the work was done once and for all the High Priest (Jesus) sits down. We symbolically had a quote unquote high priest, who stood the entire service, sit down at the end of the service. When he sat down the place erupted...it was as though everyone's favorite sports hero of all time just hit the game winning shot X10. It was huge, big, loud, and very very appropriate in light of the fact that Jesus took care of all sin for all time...once and for all and is SITTING at the right hand of the Father.

In that moment God tapped on my heart and showed me that this is only the beginning of this amazing plan he has for this city. A few tears and a few shouts...I am pumped and I cannot wait to see what happens in this city. To you Columbia folks that are involved in Midtown....thanks....thanks a ton for joining in this mission that God has called us to. I look forward to seeing many many many more people celebrating the name of Jesus in the days to come. See you this week!